GDOT Announces Public Meetings On US 441 Widening & Bishop Bypass

The Georgia Department of Transportation has scheduled two meetings in March to give the public the opportunity to review plans for the widening of U.S. 441 from Madison to Watkinsville.

The plans the public will review are the same as those presented by GDOT last year and include the close-in, two-lane truck bypass on the east side of Bishop.

After the two hearings, GDOT will make “any necessary adjustments” to the preliminary design, according to an announcement late yesterday.

Right of way acquisition is expected to take place in 2021, which the project let for construction in 2023.

The first open house on the plans will be from 5 to 7 p.m. March 12 at the Morgan County High School Cafeteria in Madison, and the second will be from 5 to 7 p.m. March 19 at Oconee County’s Veterans Park, 3500 Hog Mountain Road, west of Butler’s Crossing.

The two meetings will following an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. on March 7, also at Oconee County Veterans Park, on the planned replacement of the SR 186 Bridge over the Apalachee River at High Shoals.

For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.